Glenna,
Didn't read the book, but PBS has been doing series on National Parks for seveal months. Love them to do repeats as I can finally get around to seeing them all.
PBS did over an hour special on the Buffalo River - so good I watched it twiced.
Buffalo River was apparently first river to be protected by National Park System and good ole Sam Walton put on a tie and went to Washington willing to put his $$$ where his mouth was. As I recall, local congressman thought pork-barrel-spending-spree should include multiple dams on this little river. Committee to save the river had been formed for some time and gettin nowhere until one of the guys took Sam down the river in a canoe. Sam was instantly commited to saving the river and congressman's career pretty much ended.
Marsha

Just thinking about a srory a friend told me about Sam Walton. She worked in a Wally World store and saw and talked to him several times. She said he was very nice, just wore everyday clothes and drove an old pickup--about 15 years old with a dog deal in the back of it. Seems like he didn't let the money go to his head! Also read a story not long ago about the Buffalo River Park--he was instrumental in getting it turned into a national park. Glenna Goodwin

> From: Billie Erin Walsh <>
> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Boler / WALTON
> To:
> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 11:42 AM
> If anyone is interested you can
> download a small GED file of Sam's
> genealogy from
>
> http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/swalton/
>
> Marsha Boles wrote:
> > I agree with Peggy - should read up a bit more on Sam
> Walton.
> > Findagrave gives a short bio when you look him up -
> really more about financial success that genealogy.
> Short sweet post little post under memorial attest to his
> high reguard among "workers" (that's the way it was signed).
> I always believed he was native Arkansan - WRONG, from OK.
> Buried (I believe) in Benton.
> > Marsha
> >
> > --- On Mon, 2/15/10, PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> From: PEGGY TRUESDELL <>
> >> Subject: Re: [ARIZARD] Boler / WALTON (Marsha)
> >> To:
> >> Date: Monday, February 15, 2010, 11:53 PM
> >> Mrs. WALTON was the one with the "old
> >> rich" money and her family had some connections to
> land
> >> East and Southeast of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, but
> in Wagoner
> >> County, where coal was mined. By the 1950s
> we called them
> >> the "strip pits" and some went swimming in the
> ones that had
> >> water in them. Her maiden name was ROBSON.
> >>
> >> There's a biography on Sam WALTON that I have not
> read but
> >> should.
> >>
> >> Peggy
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